HMS Lizard

Twelve ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Lizard after The Lizard, a peninsula in Cornwall.

Ships

• HMS Lizard was a ship listed between 1512 and 1522.
• HMS Lizard was a 16-gun fireship Royalist ship captured by the Parliamentarians in 1652 and expended in 1666.
• HMS Lizard was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1673 and captured by the Dutch in 1674.
• HMS Lizard was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1694 and wrecked in 1696.
• HMS Lizard was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1697 and sold in 1714.
• HMS Lizard was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1744 and wrecked in 1748.
• HMS Lizard was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1757, used for harbour service from 1795 and sold in 1828.
• HMS Lizard was an 18-gun schooner in service in 1782 and sold in 1786.
• HMS Lizard was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1840 and sunk in 1843 in a collision with the French paddle sloop Veloce.
• HMS Lizard was an iron paddle gunboat launched in 1844 and broken up in 1869.
• HMS Lizard was a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1886 and sold in 1905.
• HMS Lizard was an Acheron-class destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.

Shore establishments

• HMS Lizard was a Combined Operations Landing Craft base, at Shoreham, West Sussex, commissioned in 1942 and closed in 1945.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• B. Warlow, Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy (second edition), Maritime Books, Liskeard, 2000. ISBN 0-907771-73-4.